<p dir="ltr">I support Norbert!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2014 3:26 AM, "Kivuva" <<a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I also endorse Norbert's nomination. He's a trusted pair of hands and<br>
an asset to the community.<br>
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On 07/01/2014, Grace Githaiga <<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> + 1 for Nobert.<br>
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> CC: <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; <a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch">nb@bollow.ch</a>; <a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>;<br>
> <a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a><br>
> From: <a href="mailto:ecrire@catherine-roy.net">ecrire@catherine-roy.net</a><br>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:15:04 -0500<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; <a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com">kichango@gmail.com</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees<br>
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> I also support Norbert's candidacy.<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> --Catherine <a href="http://Roywww.catherine-roy.net" target="_blank">Roywww.catherine-roy.net</a><br>
> On 2014-01-06, at 18:01, Mawaki Chango <<a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com">kichango@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I support Norbert's self-nomination/expression of interest to serve on the<br>
> Executive Committee.I am confident he will be a great asset for ensuring the<br>
> inclusion of broader civil society perspectives during the agenda setting<br>
> exercise for the BR meeting.<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Norbert Bollow <<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch">nb@bollow.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Jeremy and Ian and all,<br>
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> this is an expression of interest to serve on the Executive Committee<br>
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> for the São Paulo meeting.<br>
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> My chief interest in this context is to contribute to ensuring that<br>
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> the agenda setting process for the São Paulo meeting will be<br>
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> sufficiently inclusive of all relevant perspectives: Of course a single<br>
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> two-days event that aims to reach a consensus on an outcome document<br>
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> cannot productively address a too big range of topics, but I would<br>
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> insist that it is critically important to carefully ensure that the<br>
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> framing of the discourse on those topics is open enough that no kinds<br>
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> Brief biography: Born in Germany in 1968 and attended public schools<br>
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> there; moved to Switzerland in 1985 and studied mathematics and physics<br>
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> especially with FOSS technologies and standardization work. Active in<br>
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> 2004. Careful to keep the topics of civil society engagement separated<br>
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> Relevant experience includes:<br>
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> * Chairmanship of the “Swiss Internet User Group” (SIUG), 2006-2009.<br>
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> * Having successfully negotiated, as a civil society person, with<br>
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> Microsoft a fix to their patent non-assertion pledge regarding OOXML<br>
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> and some other specifications to resolve a potential patent threat<br>
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> to GPL-licensed software. (PJ of Groklaw was so surprised that she<br>
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> published a picture of a flying pig, in relation to this.)<br>
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> * Chairmanship of the Swiss mirror committee for international<br>
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> standards on “Document Description and Processing Languages".<br>
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> * Participation in the drafting process for the outcome document of<br>
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> the 2013 WSIS+10 review event in Paris.<br>
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> * Having served as a co-coordinator of the IGC for most of 2013.<br>
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> * Participated and organized workshops at multiple IGFs. This includes<br>
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> successful cooperation with the “focal points” for the CSTD Enhanced<br>
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> Cooperation WG for all non-governmental stakeholder constituencies to<br>
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> hold a workshop at the Bali IGF on “MS selection processes:<br>
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> accountability and transparency” (workshop 127).<br>
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> Greetings,<br>
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> Norbert<br>
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> Am Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:41:17 +1100<br>
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> schrieb "Ian Peter" <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>>:<br>
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>> This is a call for nominations to represent civil society on planning<br>
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>> committees in preparations for the “Global Multistakeholder Meeting<br>
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>> on Internet Governance”, to be held in Sao Paulo Brazil on April 23<br>
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>> This committee will include 4 civil society representatives.<br>
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>> The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is midnight UTC 7<br>
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>> If you are interested, you are invited to send a brief biography and<br>
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>> <a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a> (pending the appointment of a replacement IGC<br>
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>> representative on the co-ordination group). At the closing date for<br>
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>> nominations, nominations submitted to various civil society networks<br>
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>> Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your application whether<br>
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>> 1. Able to represent civil society as a whole, not just your<br>
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>> 4. Ability to represent civil society at a senior level in these<br>
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>> Explanation of process<br>
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>> The civil society coordinating group is a loose peak body that came<br>
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>> the most active civil society coalitions or networks in the Internet<br>
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>> governance space, which in no particular order are the Internet<br>
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>> Governance Caucus, Diplo Foundation, Best Bits, the Non Commercial<br>
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>> Stakeholder Group of ICANN, and the Association for Progressive<br>
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>> Communications. The current liaisons are Virginia Paque, Jeremy<br>
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>> Malcolm, Robin Gross and Chat Garcia Ramilo, with Ian Peter as an<br>
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>> independent facilitator. Its current composition is imperfect - the<br>
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>> boundary between an organisation and network is grey, and so is the<br>
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>> scope of "Internet governance". In particular, we are reaching out<br>
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>> to other civil society networks to further broaden the inclusiveness<br>
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>> of the group and have developed a draft set of criteria to assist in<br>
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>> Likewise, the process for gathering and reaching consensus is also a<br>
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>> work in progress, but progressive improvements to the process have<br>
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>> support from within the group and so have not been adopted for this<br>
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>> Ian Peter<br>
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